Posted on 07/30/2012 7:46:11 AM PDT by 92nina
On Wednesday, President Obama argued that not raising taxes on certain households amounts to a "giveaway" from the government.
On Thursday, White House spokesman Jay Carney repeated and defended the term "giveaway."
Chalk it up as another example of a "You didn't build that" worldview.
During the Thursday press briefing, ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper asked Carney why the White House uses the term "giveaway":
Jake Tapper: You used the word "giveaway", and President Obama, in his statement yesterday, used the word "giveaway," referring to the extension of the lower Bush tax cut rates for I guess the top 1 or 2 percent of the country -- people making over $200,000 a year, or couples making $250,000. What do you say to a small business owner who says, that's not a giveaway, that's my money, and by the way, I'm going to need some of that money in order to help pay the health care of individuals that I'm now mandated to do? It's not giving anything away, it's allowing me to keep my money.
Carney repeatedly defended the term and then pivoted to misleading talking points about small businesses:
Carney: "97 percent of people who file -- small businesses that file taxes under the individual tax code will receive this tax cut."
Reality: Only in Washington is preventing a tax increase from happening considered a "tax cut." If your tax rate and tax burden is the same next year as it is this year, you didn't get a tax cut. You simply didn't have your taxes raised.
The White House is correct that most people with small business income make less than $200,000 per year. But the majority of small employer profits do face taxation in the tax brackets President Obama wants to raise. These businesses employ a majority of all workers in the small business sector. Finally, 3 percent of small businesses is still 1 million small businesses all across America (i.e., the job-creating and successful ones) facing higher marginal income tax rates.
Carney: "The President believes that small businesses are so important that he has dedicated a lot of energy and focus on providing tax credits and tax incentives and tax cuts to small businesses throughout his three and a half years in office."
Reality: Really? Do most job-creating small employers think that the Obama Administration has been a boon for them? It's true that Obama didn't shrink the small business "Section 179" expensing levels he inherited, but that's hardly a tax cut for small business. He also put in place a small employer health credit that is so complicated, no one is actually using it.
At the same time, the Obama Administration is urging a hike in the marginal tax rate on 1 million small businesses. These businesses earn the majority of small employer profits, and employ the overwhelming majority of Americans working for a small business.
Then there's Obamacare. There are 20 new or higher taxes in that law, totaling $1 trillion in net tax hikes. One was repealed already--onerous reporting requirements on small business (Carney is likely claiming credit for that, too). But there's still the employer mandate, the tax hike on small medical device manufactuers, the tanning tax (all of those businesses are small), and the increase in the Medicare payroll tax rate (which many small business owners pay on every penny of earnings). Most small business owners would prefer that President Obama stop "helping" them, in fact.
This is just another example of how President Obama's White House believes that small business owners "didn't build that," and how the government letting small employers keep their own money is a "giveaway."
The full transcript of Carney's press briefing can be found here.
Read more: http://atr.org/obama-letting-people-their-own-money-a7078#ixzz227JzHh9b
He’s a Marxist pure and simple.
Anyone who chooses to believe otherwise has a severe case of “Emperor’s New Clothes” Syndrome.
Sick mindset
There’s no doubt what they are.
Carney is a puppet and represents the view of the Regime like Baghdad Bob did for Saddam Hussein. Of course he couldn’t even say that Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel.
Taxation is theft.
The deceit in the language of the left is stunning.
As a small businessman, I’m going to add some things to my inventory:
Tar
Feathers
Rails
Pitchforks
Torches
I’ll clean up!
The arrogance of this a-hole is astounding.
You and I may have no doubt about what they are but the mob of morons that infest the local newspaper’s reader forum can’t seem to grasp the simple concept of ownership. The depths to which class/wealth envy has driven the conversation about taxes is just astounding to me.
Agriculture? Belongs to the government.
Herding? Belongs to the government?
Pottery and weaving? Belongs to the government.
And don't even think about industry.
If you get to keep anything above what you could get hunting deer with a rock, then that is a gift by the benevolent lords of government to one of their loyal serfs.
So, what Obama was saying was:
“All of your monies belongs to me!”?
Very Baghdad Bob... And very WRONG!!!
The way I understand Barry’s comment is that his concept of taxation is different from the commonly held view. In the common defn we have agreed w/ the govt that we’ll give some part of our property to them. The idea of private ownership is in force....its ours to give by mutual consent. His view is all your property belongs to the govt and for now they’re letting us keep some of it, ie no private ownership. So, this isn’t taxation as we all think of it. To be fair I suspect most pols in DC and the various state houses share Barry’s view. They’re just no unpolitic to say so in public.
The way I understand Barry’s comment is that his concept of taxation is different from the commonly held view. In the common defn we have agreed w/ the govt that we’ll give some part of our property to them. The idea of private ownership is in force....its ours to give by mutual consent. His view is all your property belongs to the govt and for now they’re letting us keep some of it, ie no private ownership. So, this isn’t taxation as we all think of it. To be fair I suspect most pols in DC and the various state houses share Barry’s view. They’re just no unpolitic to say so in public.
I need an explanation. The writer agrees that most small business owners have incomes < 200 or 250K. Then in the next sentence he says that most small business profits will be taxed at the higher rates. What am I not understanding here. This sounds like doubletalk.
Obama is the most rigid ideologue to head a country since Mao starved his country with the "Cultural Revolution" and Pol Pot emulated him in Cambodia, even Lenin was pragmatic when necessary.
The only thing holding him back is the need to be re elected so he can consolidate implement the ground work he has laid in his first term to “his fundamentally change the United States”.
He has been telling the truth about his intentions all along, it's just that most don't grasp his meaning of “fundamentally change” When Obama thinks of change, he thinks of the Cultural Revolution and his administration has been putting in place most of the pieces to impose his high tech version of the Cultural Revolution on this country.
Are you REALLY surprised to hear this?As far as The Rats are concerned,ALL money belongs to the government;on occasion,they let you keep some of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep.. I’ll bet Zero was one of those college students who had a Mao magnet on this refridge.
the clueless mindset of these people is just amazing. The last 100 years taught most people that too much governmental power is not just scary, it leads to slaughter.
they are children and they government by pure emotion and zero logic. after all, it’s just a matter of fairness that we should “spread the wealth around”...
children...
...afterall, they printed it. /s
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